SAVI: EAGER: for Global Research on Applying Information Technology to Support Effective Disaster Management (GRAIT-DM)

SAVI：EAGER：应用信息技术支持有效灾害管理的全球研究 (GRAIT-DM)

• 批准号: 1250260
• 负责人: Calton Pu
• 金额: $ 30万
• 依托单位: Georgia Tech Research Corporation
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Standard Grant
• 财政年份: 2012
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2012-09-01 至 2014-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=1250260&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: SAVI; EAGER; Global; Research; Applying

Disasters cause damages estimated in many billions of dollars and many lives lost every year. Disaster management is a challenging task due to the seemingly unpredictable alterations of the environment and impact on people. With the primary focus on the application of information technology and Big Data, this award establishes a "virtual institute" for Global Research on Applying Information Technology to Support Effective Disaster Management (GRAIT-DM). It will foster research collaborations and community activities, with the goal of improving our preparedness for, response to, and recovery from disasters. Led by partners at the Georgia Institute of Technology and the University of Tokyo, the virtual institute is a U.S.-Japanese cooperative effort that should grow to become a global collaboration in the near future.Information technology has transformed modern disaster management, as demonstrated by Twitter which was a valuable information source during the Tohoku Earthquake. A Big Data-based approach to disaster management research can be both transformative and challenging, at both human and social scales. Reflecting this, the GRAIT-DM project supports the collection of large data sets from environmental sensors and information networks shared by many researchers working on various aspects of disaster management. This virtual institute promotes global research on the application of information technology by engaging the big data producers (e.g., sensor networks researchers), big data consumers (e.g., disaster management researchers), and big data managers (e.g., data analytics researchers) who connect the big data producers to consumers. Concrete activities include community-building workshops in the U.S. and Japan, outreach and publication of research reports, educational activities such as summer schools for graduate students and junior researcher exchanges, and a web portal to provide access to data and support for software tools for community use. Broader impacts include beneficial leveraging of international research and infrastructure investments, enhancement of on-going projects through cross-fertilization, an accelerated rate of innovation relevant to disaster management, and the development of a work-force with specialized talent, capable of excelling in a new, highly interconnected world that must cope with disasters.This award has been designated as a Science Across Virtual Institutes (SAVI) award and is being co-funded by NSF's Office of International Science and Engineering.

灾害每年造成的损失估计达数十亿美元，并造成许多人丧生。 由于环境的变化和对人类的影响看似不可预测，灾害管理是一项具有挑战性的任务。 该奖项主要关注信息技术和大数据的应用，为应用信息技术支持有效灾害管理的全球研究（GRAIT-DM）建立了一个“虚拟研究所”。 它将促进研究合作和社区活动，目标是改善我们的防灾、响应和灾后恢复。该虚拟学院由佐治亚理工学院和东京大学的合作伙伴领导，是美日合作的成果，在不久的将来应该会发展成为全球合作机构。正如 Twitter 所证明的那样，信息技术已经改变了现代灾害管理这是东北地震期间的宝贵信息来源。基于大数据的灾害管理研究方法在人类和社会层面都具有变革性和挑战性。 GRAIT-DM 项目反映了这一点，支持从环境传感器和信息网络收集大型数据集，这些数据集由许多从事灾害管理各个方面工作的研究人员共享。该虚拟研究所通过让大数据生产者（例如，传感器网络研究人员）、大数据消费者（例如，灾害管理研究人员）和大数据管理者（例如，数据分析研究人员）参与进来，促进信息技术应用的全球研究。大数据生产者到消费者。具体活动包括在美国和日本举办的社区建设研讨会、研究报告的推广和出版、研究生暑期学校和初级研究员交流等教育活动，以及为社区提供数据访问和软件工具支持的门户网站使用。 更广泛的影响包括有益地利用国际研究和基础设施投资、通过相互促进加强正在进行的项目、加快与灾害管理相关的创新速度，以及培养一支能够在各领域表现出色的专业人才队伍。必须应对灾难的高度互联的新世界。该奖项被指定为跨虚拟研究所科学 (SAVI) 奖，并由美国国家科学基金会国际科学与工程办公室共同资助。